Ambush Valley
from Odin & Aesop Hosted by Bill Redman, Kevin Yeo & Tony Faust
The Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, was created between North Vietnam and South Vietnam in 1954. The DMZ was supposed to be a temporary buffer zone that would keep previously hostile forces away from each other. When the planned unification of North Vietnam and South Vietnam stalled out, the DMZ stayed on with an air of permanence. It was four to six miles wide and ran about 47 miles from the coast to the border with Laos. Don’t believe the label though. The DMZ was anything but demilitarized. It’s here in the DMZ that 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines got into the fight for its life in September 1967. In four days 3/26 lost 56 killed and 290 wounded.
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